Poetry Terms Quiz 166 (20 MCQs)

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1. Line
2. How many stanzas does the poem below have. It came in a winter's night, a fierce cold with quite a bite.Frosted wind with all its mightsent ice and snow an inviteto layer earth in pure whiteand glisten with morning light.
3. An author's tone that inspires a comic atmosphere, can lead to a playful feeling in writing
4. Poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-that does not rhyme
5. A 14 line poem, typically (but not exclusively) concerning the topic of love. They contain internal rhymes within their 14 lines; the exact rhyme scheme depends on the style
6. A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.
7. Unrhymed lines of ten syllables with the even-numbered syllables bearing the stress
8. Anapest or anapestic
9. One line of poetry is .....
10. A line of tetrameter contains this many feet:
11. Door, lore, s'more, bore, are examples of what?
12. "As she walked into the dark forest, she could hear the leaves crunching under her feet and smell the dark, damp dirt." (This writing has ..... in it that helps the reader visualize the scene.
13. This is another word for the fixed number of lines making up separate sections of a poem
14. The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant ie using blood for "life"
15. How many verses are in this poem?The animal I really digAbove all others is the pig.Pigs are noble, pigs are clever, Pigs are courteous, however,
16. This is a term for giving something else a meaning beyond what it usually holds
17. Move or change that is often indicated by the use of stanza shift or words such as but/however
18. What is a technique by which a writer deliberately suggest two or more different, and sometimes conflicting meanings in a work.
19. Strict
20. The words or phrases that a poet wrote onto one line